{"id":100,"date":"2005-11-02T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/meet-the-new-elite\/"},"modified":"2005-11-02T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T20:00:30","slug":"meet-the-new-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/meet-the-new-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The larger point is we are living in the post-Reagan era. <\/p>\n<p>The outsiders of old are insiders; the conservatives are credentialed and networked. It has fallen to George W. Bush, the combative <\/p>\n<p>underachiever, to create a second-term government of the best and brightest, GOP-style. <strong>The problem for the Republicans is that, <\/p>\n<p>now that they&#8217;re the elite, who are they going to denounce for elitism?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-\n\ndyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/01\/AR2005110101258.html?referrer=email\">Meet the New Elite<\/a><br \/>\nBy David Ignatius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The larger point is we are living in the post-Reagan era. The outsiders of old are insiders; the conservatives are credentialed and networked. It has fallen to George W. Bush, the combative underachiever, to create a second-term government of the best and brightest, GOP-style. The problem for the Republicans is that, now that they&#8217;re the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/meet-the-new-elite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet the New Elite<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya","category-qotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}